The Tumbleweed Trail

Poured out of the same mold used for all the other Eddie Dean starrers, 'Tumbleweed Trail' rates as standard fare for the oatuner trade. Pic is compounded out of the regular ingredients of obvious good guys vs. bad guys plot, gun and fist play, a speck of romance, and a flock of fair saddle tunes delivered by Dean with banjo obligato. Production accouterments, as usual, are held down to the barest minimum with scripting, thesping and camera work of mediocre calibre. Dean plays an undercover agent for the law on the trail of a gang of cattle rustlers. With sidekick Roscoe Ates, still using the stuttering routine for laughs, Dean takes a ranchhand job with a cowgal whose father has been murdered. After lots of hard riding and devious schemes to trap the killer, Dean finally tags his man and makes everybody happy by bringing the so called dead man out of hiding.... (Variety, November 6, 1946)